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Bud Powell, the pianist most identified with bebop, and a musician who deserves much of the credit for setting modern jazz’s high technical standards, was generally considered to be in steady decline after several mental health crises in the late 1940’s and early ’50’s. Powell had burst on the jazz scene as a 16 year-old […]

We love movies. Hell, we love movies almost as much as we love music. But unlike creative American forms such as jazz, rock and country, movies are no more dead or alive today than they’ve ever been, which bodes well for cinema’s future. Or sounds its death knell. Whatever. We love ’em regardless. Combining these […]

Your (mostly one-man) staff here at Dead Like Jazz has been seriously “afk” for a few days, mostly due to an intervention by real life. A car accident to be specific. Luckily, even agnostics like us are blessed from time to time, and we escaped with minor, but reasonably painful, injuries. That relegated us to […]

Dead Like Jazz is a rant about late, lamented twentieth-century musical forms: deceased, mostly American music that was vital--even essential--until all genres of it stopped evolving almost simultaneously in the the late 1970's and early 1980's. Rock & roll, rhythm and blues, country and blues are all represented here, but the greater emphasis is on jazz. If you read the posts, you may begin to understand why. Yep, it's all dead, but we celebrate it here daily!